Watch-guard.



C. A. NORD.

WATCH GUARD. APPLICATION FILED sum: 25.1915.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917 INVENTOR 6? d- M A TTORNE Y CARL ANTON 'NORD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WATCH-GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

Application filed June 25, 1915. Serial No. 36,302.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL ANTON NORD, a citizen of Sweden, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Watch-Guards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to safety attachments that are applicable to wearing-apparel, and designed to afford a ready and reliable means of conserving and keeping in appropriate position some valuable article, as a watch or the like, while being carried on the person.

An important object of the invention is to provide a watch guard composed of dis tinctly independent and separable elements, which can be manufactured at comparatively slight expense, and readily assembled for actual use without having recourse to special tools or requiring any intricate adjustment.

A further object is the production of an improved guard of the type set forth which .shall consist of but a couple of parts, each of less weight and volume than the watch, and incapable of interfering with the manipulation thereof when the watch is pulled out for inspection.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the said objects in view, the invention resides in the construction, arrangement and combination of novel elements hereinafter described and claimed; and illustrated in their preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawing, wherein,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of this inrproved guard, showing the application thereof to the watch and pocket in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a central vertical cross-section of the guard detached from the pocket, the watch being also removed;

Fig. 3 is atop plan view of the guard in the same form as represented by Fig. 2; and

Fig. a is a face view of a modified form of the guard.

In both forms of the invention illustrated in the drawings hereto annexed, the guard includes an open case 11, of sufficient depth to accommodate practically the full thick ness of the watch, and of such other dimensions as will afford the watch an adequate backing, as well as encircle it at the periph ery. This case is conveniently stamped from sheet-metal in one piece, and by preference is lined in and out with some soft fabric, as indicated at 12 and 13, Fig. 2. The watch is represented by dash and dotted lines at 14, in Fig. 1. A garment pocket such as the watch and guard may be used in connection with, is similarly outlined at 15, in the last named figure.

The case aforesaid has a marginal notch 18, suitably rounded to receive the stem of the watch. It is intended that the watch stem should normally remain within the said notch, and therefore the metal of the case is drawn out to produce a pair of prongs 19, 20, which are more or less resilient and stand close enough together to require some efi'ort in passing the said stem between the same. Further, the prongs are bent in opposite directions, one within and the other without the case, as clearly appears in Fig. 4, in order to vary the width of passage allowed to the watch stem according to the way the watch is held while introducing it into the case. It will be seen, upon reference to the said Fig. 4:, that the passageway orentrance to the notch 18 is substantially narrower between the points marked 21 and 22, that is on a straight line, than along ,a diagonal line extending obliquely across. The purpose of this construction is to prevent the watch stem from entering or leaving the notch if it be held at right angles to the margin of the case, so that once thewatch is lodged in the latter it cannot be removed therefrom except by swinging it out and turning it to the extent required to bring its stem into an oblique position, the advantage whereof is that the watch cannot slide or fall out of the case by itself, but must be handled in a certain way for removal. 1

A small flange, as 25 maybe provided at the bottom edge of the case 11, diametrically opposite the pair of prongs aforementioned, to co-act therewith in keeping the watch safely incased when placed inside the pocket in the customary manner. See Figs. 1 and 2. The said flange 25 may be made integral with the case by stamping it out of the metal sheet, or it can be fashioned separately and joined to the case by any approved process of the metal-workers art.

The watch and open case therefor are held in the pocket together, as well as separably one from the other, by means of an independently attachable and detachable retainer 28. As shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, this retainer is conveniently made of wire, and has a central bend forming a tongue-like member 29, adapted to traverse a loop or bridge 30, in the upper part of the case 11, including its linings. The loop or bridge is formed by slitting the case and linings along parallel lines 31 and 32, Figs. 1 and l. From the sides of the member 29, the wire is led obliquely upward and on more or less pronounced curves in opposite directions, to-

ward the upper corners of thepoclret, where the ends of the wire are coiled upon themselves to form convolutions 33, 3% beyond which the wire is tipped with claws, 35, 36, sutficiently sharp to pierce the lining of the pocket intended to contain the watch.

It is now apparent, referring particularly to Fig. 1, that when the watch and its com plete guard, as above described, are placed in the pocket, substantially in the manner indicated, they both will be held secure against accidental displacement, and neither the watch nor any part of the guard can be taken out in ordinary circumstances unless the owner personally effects the removal or is instantly made aware of its being done. The watch can be lifted out of the pocket, minus the case, by first turning it to pass the watch stem between the yielding marginal prongs, in the way previously explained, and it can be put back simply by reversing the operation. If it be desired to remove the watch and the case at the same time, the only thing to do is to withdraw the tongue 29 from the loop or bridge 30, either by disengaging the claws of the wire retainer from the pocket corners, or else by springing the wire. Meanwhile the wire does not touch the bottom of the pocket at any point, and consequently cannot injure the lining thereof by chafing or otherwise.

Fig. A in addition to containing the essential parts of the invention hereinabove specified, includes a modified form of wire retainer 39, in which the central bend is extended downwardly to pass under the lower edge of the case 11, as at 4:0, and thence is turned up to constitute an upwardly curved rail 41, designed to replace the flange 25 of the other construction, hereinbei ore described. The rail tl fills the same o'liice as the flange 25 by cooperating with the prongs 19 and 20 of the case 11, in maintaining the watch firmly positioned within the said case.

Gbviously, the two forms of the invention herein disclosed are susceptible of additional modifications, and either form may be altered in a greater or less degree to suit varying conditions. It is not intended, therefore, to limit the invention to the exact details of construction shown and described, nor to any particular method of carrying the same into practice, but on the contrary the right is hereby reserved to make any and all conceivable changes in the construction and mode of operation as come fairly within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim 1s:

1. A watch guard including a removable case for the watch having a marginal notch for the reception of the watch stem, and prongs offset in opposite directions inwardly and outwardly relatively to the center of said case so as to form a restricted passage through which said stem can pass only in an oblique direction.

2. A watch guard including a removable case provided with an upwardly directed flange adapted to receive the bottom edge of the watch, and a marginal notch in the upper edge or" said case substantially opposite said flange, the outer extremities of said notch constituting prongs offset inwardly and outwardly in opposite directions relatively to the center of the case, whereby a restricted passage is afforded for receiving the watch stein obliquely prior to the watch being lodged behind the flange.

3. A watch guard including a removable case for the watch, a loop or bridge on the back thereof, and a retainer having a member capable of engagement and disengage ment with said loop or bridge.

A. A watch guard including a removable case for the watch, a bridge or loop formed in said case, and a retainer having a tonguelike member slidably engageable with said bridge or loop.

5. A watch guard including a removable case for the watch, a receiving element thereon, and a double armed retainer having a member engaging said element from above downwardly' 6. A watch guard including a remdvable case for a watch insertible therewith into a containing pocket, a bridge or loop on said case, and a bifurcated retainer in engagement with the upper part of the pocket having a central member crossing said bridge or loop from the top downward.

7. A watch guard including a removable case for the watch insertible therewith into a containing pocket, a bridge or loop on said case, a retainer having a central member slidable into engagement with said bridge or loop, and claws at the retainers ends wherewith opposite portions of the pocket are engaged. r

8. A watch guard including a removable case for the watch insertible therewith into a containing pocket, a receiving element on V said case, a Wire retainer adapted to engage the county of New York and State of New said element, claws at the ends of said re- York, this 23rd day of June, A. D. 1915. tainer wherewith opposite portions of the pocket lining are engaged, and eonvolntions CARL ANTON NORD' 5 in Wire adjacent to said claws operating to Witnesses:

limit their advance into the said lining. H. C. KARLSON,

Signed at the borough of Manhattan, in W. H. GEE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the 'Gommissioner of Yatento Washington, D. G. 

